How do I include Lucene for App Engine in my exist

Question

I was referred to Lucene for App Engine (LAE) as a more robust replacement for the Search Api. But I am not sure how to incorporate LAE into my existing project. My existing project does not use maven. I am not really sure how to get started even though seemingly there is a set of instructions. I am using eclipse. What's the for Dummy version? I already tried copying the zip from git and then import project into eclipse: that didn't work. Then I tried copying the source files into a package in my own project: that didn't work either. How do I go about getting this thing to compile with my Project? I wish it were just a jar. Anyway, thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Rather than including Lucene directly, I would highly recommend looking at spinning up an instance of elasticsearch if you're looking to replace the search api: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch

Note, that Elasticsearch is backed by Lucene but hides the complexity of Lucene behind a very rich API.